NAME

gdcmgendir - Tool to generate a DICOMDIR file from a File-Set.

SYNOPSIS

gdcmgendir [options] file-in file-out

DESCRIPTION

PARAMETERS

file-in   DICOM input filename
file-out  DICOM output filename

OPTIONS

  -i --input              DICOM filename or directory


  -o --output             DICOM filename or directory


  -r --recursive          recursive.


     --descriptor         descriptor.


     --root-uid           Root UID.

  -h   --help


         print this help text and exit


  -v   --version


         print version information and exit


  -V   --verbose


         verbose mode (warning+error).


  -W   --warning


         warning mode, print warning information


  -E   --error


         error mode, print error information


  -D   --debug


         debug mode, print debug information

  GDCM_ROOT_UID Root UID

TYPICAL USAGE

NOTE

One may have to run some preliminary steps in order to get gdcmgendir to generate the DICOMDIR file. Namely two steps:

Step 1. can be solved in a numerous way. Eg. on UNIX environment this could either be solved using the mkisofs command line tool. Filenames should not contains any extension since the VR CS does not allow for the '.' character. Only upper case, digit 0-9, the space ' ' and the underscore '_' character are valid in VR CS, with a maximum of 8 bytes. Another simple tool that can be handy is 'rename' in conjunction with 'basename'.

Step 2. can simply be achieved using the gdcmconv command line tool:

  $ for i in `ls IMG*`; do gdcmconv --raw --force $i /tmp/out/$i; done

SEE ALSO

gdcmconv(1), gdcmanon(1), rename(1), mkisofs(1)

AUTHOR

Mathieu Malaterre

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre